Accelerating Transformation

Artificial Intelligence

Uli HomannCVP Cloud & AI

June 2019

Great AI Needs Great Compute

DNN Processing Units

EFFICIENCY

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FLEXIBILITY

Soft DPU(FPGA)

Control Unit (CU)

Registers

Arithmetic Logic

Unit (ALU)

CPUs GPUsASICsDPU

CerebrasEyerissGoogle TPUGraphcoreGroqIntel NervanaMythicWave ComputingetcMicrosoft

BrainWave

Baidu SDADeephi TechEff. Speech EngineTeradeepetc

Great AI Needs Great Data

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esData growth projectionsIDC predicts Global DataSphere will grow from 33 Zettabytes (ZB) in 2018 to 175 ZB by 2025

Figure 1: Annual size of the Global DataSphere175 ZB

Source: Data Age 2025, sponsored by Seagate with data from IDC Global DataSphere, Nov 2018

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DNA storage

Encoding

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Sequencing

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Synthesis

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Preservation

Joint project between Microsoft and University of Washington

>1,000x denser than tape

2,000 years in ~10˚C

Station B at Princeton

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Great AI Needs Great Data But How Much do you Really Need

There are three main types of damage detected

ALGAE CRACKS RUST

Visualising the data

Recent Successes of Reinforcement Learning

“Closed-world” systems make simulating

millions of trials easy.

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It’s not easy!

Atari Games ~ 200M frames= ~77 Days @ 30 frames/sec Alpha Go ~ 130M self-plays

Pacman ~ 150M frames

Great AI Needs Great Values

Today’s debate

Fairness

Reliability & Safety

Source: Rand Corp. Driving to Safety; Kara & Paddock

Miles & years needed for to demonstrate autonomous vehicle reliability

Privacy & Security

We knew that if we could identify them in their second trimester, there’s a good chance we could capture them for years

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Inclusiveness

Economic Graph Research

Transparency HasAsthma(x) => LessRisk(x)

Accountability

“We can’t afford to look at this future with uncritical eyes.”– The Future Computed

Great AI Needs Great People

Microsoft Research AI(MSR AI)

Pool talent from multiple areas of AI

Natural language

Perception Learning Reasoning

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